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During the summer of 2005, six 0.5 x 0.5 meter quadrats were haphazardly placed and set up permanently in the low marsh at two study sites along the Crooked River in vegetated and unvegetated areas. Core samples were taken from each quadrat at low tide during 3 months. Taxa richness and diversity was described at each site to determine if unvegetated areas at each site displayed lower infaunal abundance and diversity. The effects of the absence of vegetation varied between sites and across sampling months. There were no significant differences in organic content between the vegetated and unvegetated quadrats; abiotic measurements taken from each site were similar.","abstract_html":"Various commercially important marine species are known to utilize the salt marsh; research has shown that marsh infauna play an important role in the diets of these species. The distribution and abundance of some of these infauna has been shown to be influenced by vegetative cover. 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